Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to slash the national deficit and curb debt during his second term, but a sobering assessment of the nation’s financial health by one of the federal government’s premier fiscal watchdogs suggests Trump 2.0’s policies have not only collectively pushed the federal deficit significantly higher, but put the country on an unsustainable path.
In its latest budget and economic outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan federal agency, revised its cumulative deficit projection for the 2026–2035 period upward by $1.4 trillion compared with its forecast from just a year ago.
“Our budget projections continue to indicate that the fiscal trajectory is not sustainable,” CBO Director Phillip Swagel said in a statement, noting the agency’s latest projections. Under laws passed in Trump’s first year back in office, the national debt in 2030 will surpass the historic high of 106% of GDP, which it reached in 1946. Meanwhile, the balance of Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2032, one year earlier than the CBO projected last January.



Added solar to my house in 2018. Took out loan for over $20k, had it paid off in a year or two thanks to the SRECs generated by the wHs of the array. Doubt anyone in US could see that now under this clean coal regime, but it could be done well before the conveyed panel efficiency bullshit that likes to be thrown around. Technology Solutions on YT had a video recently that absolutely destroyed a bunch of the common detractors that like to be thrown around.
I can link the SolarEdge page for my array a little later today to show what a 7.2 wH (I think) system produces over 6-ish years, if it helps.
I’ll have to look for that video, sounds interesting.